MacTech November 2011 articles!

Title: Typesetting a book on a Mac using LaTeX
Subtitle: How I used LaTeX to typeset a book


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LaTeX works better now

LaTeX works better.
At least it can compile the default LaTeX templates from TextMate.
I have to fix some more things though but thinks are certainly better.

LaTeX update

Latest news:

• Deleted the Macports LaTeX installation
• Downloading this LaTeX Distribution

More tk :)

My LaTeX installation is not working!

I am using LaTeX (with TextMate) both for writing Mathematical equations and typesetting books.

I am using the Macports version of LaTeX but (I think) after updating to Snow Leopard my LaTeX stopped working!

Now is the time to fix it.

I will keep you informed.

MacPorts LaTeX and the marvosym package

After installing the MacPorts version of LaTeX, I have a problem with it: the marvosym LaTeX package does not work as expected.

Today, that I have a little free time, I will search the problem a little bit more in order to find a solution.

Do you have a solution?

MacPorts and LaTeX

A side effect of using MacPorts (see this post for more information) is that I recalled that I was also using a PowerPC version of LaTeX.

Using the information found here, after deleting my current LaTeX installation, I managed to install the MacPorts Universal Binary (UB) version of LaTeX. Everything is working just fine, including Greek typetting!

I like LaTeX so much that I typeset my "Programming Dashboard Widgets" eBook using it.

Using TextMate for LaTeX documents

One of the things that I really wanted to learn is using TextMate for writing and compiling LaTeX documents.
The first place that I looked up for help was Haris Skiadas' blog. Haris is doing a great job in supporting the use of the TextMate editor for writing LaTeX documents. I was not wrong as I found three relevant screencasts there. After googling for a while, I also found a great blog entry titled "Setting up LaTeX on Mac OS X" and I followed its instructions. After installing pdfsync and Skim, I was able to re-compile, view and change a previously created LaTeX project (including BibTeX entries!) that included both Greek and Latin characters.

I am copying the following extremely useful information from the aforementioned blog post:

For enabling the integration of TextMate and Skim you need to use the pdfsync package by including \usepackage{pdfsync} in the preamble of your document. With pdfsync enabled you can press ⌃⌥⌘O (or use the bundle’s “Show in PDFViewer (pdfsync) command”) to jump to the matching place in the PDF file. Vice versa, when pressing Shift-Command-clicking on a location inside Skim, TextMate is showing the matching paragraph in the LaTeX source.

So, as far as writing and compiling LaTeX (and HTML) documents using TextMate, the case is closed!

Note: I have installed LaTeX using the i-installer LaTeX package. The place that I put the pdfsync.sty file is: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/pdfsync/pdfsync.sty.